Box 129
Container
Contains 9 Collections and/or Records:
Jefferson Davis Letters, 1888
File — Box: 129, Folder: 6
Series Description
From the Series:
This series contains correspondence, both outgoing and incoming. Most of the materials are of a personal nature between Davis and his wife, children, or other family members. It includes letters from Mary Custis Lee and Braxton Bragg, as well as letters from Davis to General Robert E. Lee, General Josiah Gorgas, and prominent Tuscaloosa businessman, Robert Jemison. In addition to his correspondence, there are a few of Davis’s writings such as his inauguration speech and the first draft of...
Dates:
1888
Jefferson Davis to (Pollie). Beauvoir., 1888 January 17
Item — Box: 129, Folder: 6
Scope and Contents
Writes of his anxiety over state of Addison’s health (son-in-law).
Dates:
1888 January 17
Jefferson Davis to Gordon L. Ford. Beauvoir, Mississippi., 1888 April 20
Item — Box: 129, Folder: 6
Series Description
From the Series:
This series contains correspondence, both outgoing and incoming. Most of the materials are of a personal nature between Davis and his wife, children, or other family members. It includes letters from Mary Custis Lee and Braxton Bragg, as well as letters from Davis to General Robert E. Lee, General Josiah Gorgas, and prominent Tuscaloosa businessman, Robert Jemison. In addition to his correspondence, there are a few of Davis’s writings such as his inauguration speech and the first draft of...
Dates:
1888 April 20
Jefferson Davis to H. C. Harrison. Beauvoir, Mississippi., 1888 April 24
Item — Box: 129, Folder: 6
Series Description
From the Series:
This series contains correspondence, both outgoing and incoming. Most of the materials are of a personal nature between Davis and his wife, children, or other family members. It includes letters from Mary Custis Lee and Braxton Bragg, as well as letters from Davis to General Robert E. Lee, General Josiah Gorgas, and prominent Tuscaloosa businessman, Robert Jemison. In addition to his correspondence, there are a few of Davis’s writings such as his inauguration speech and the first draft of...
Dates:
1888 April 24
Jefferson Davis to Maj. W. T. Walthall. Beauvoir, Mississippi., 1888 May 22
Item — Box: 129, Folder: 6
Scope and Contents
Letter demanding his right to all material which his assistant is gathering for manuscript.
Dates:
1888 May 22
Jefferson Davis to Miss Graham. Beauvoir, Mississippi., 1888 August 4
Item — Box: 129, Folder: 6
Series Description
From the Series:
This series contains correspondence, both outgoing and incoming. Most of the materials are of a personal nature between Davis and his wife, children, or other family members. It includes letters from Mary Custis Lee and Braxton Bragg, as well as letters from Davis to General Robert E. Lee, General Josiah Gorgas, and prominent Tuscaloosa businessman, Robert Jemison. In addition to his correspondence, there are a few of Davis’s writings such as his inauguration speech and the first draft of...
Dates:
1888 August 4
J. A. Early to Jefferson Davis. Cotton Factors. Nos. 64 & 66 Baronne, Mississippi., 1888 August 8
Item — Box: 129, Folder: 6
Scope and Contents
Writes that the cigar holder he is sending was made by his own hands out of buckeye that grew in the Allegheny mountains of Virginia.
Dates:
1888 August 8
Jefferson Davis to J. D. Ramsey. Beauvoir, Mississippi., 1888 October 30
Item — Box: 129, Folder: 6
Scope and Contents
A letter of advice as to his course in life.
Dates:
1888 October 30
Jefferson Davis to L. Narcisse Prudhome. Beauvoir, Mississippi., 1888 December 28
Item — Box: 129, Folder: 6
Scope and Contents
States that he does not have any of the cotton that he describes although he is still a planter and has several varieties of cotton.
Dates:
1888 December 28